My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC! Gifted by Suzuki Suzumi is translated from the Japanese (by Allison Markin Powell) and about a troubled mother-daughter relationship. On paper, this is the perfect book for me, but unfortunately it didn’t really leave an impression me. It’s only short, 100 pages or so, and so it had to pack a brutal punch which I don’t think it did. It kind of just ~was~. Considering it tackles topics like childhood abuse, sex work, a dying parent, it lacks the emotion you’d expect. It’s detached, likely purposeful, but for me that style didn’t work. I’d probably give this author’s work another go, but sadly this one missed the mark.